"Admission Policies in Europe"

Abstract

Border control is a very unclear notion and it raises the contradiction between States and Markets. According to historical and geographical specificities proper to each country, to the interpretation of the UN Convention on Asylum of 1951, to the variations of nationality rights, admission policies strongly differ in spite of a consensus on border control. Most European countries have decided to stop their immigration flows of labour force in 1973-1974, preceded by the United Kingdom in 1962. Most new immigration countries like Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece have adopted immigration policies during the eighties. They are all differing so with the United States, Canada and Australia which are combining an incitement to selective or family immigration with repression at entrance.